stevebt

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Is the council actually gritting anything anymore as I haven't seen a gritter in days. Also all the grit bins have been empty for weeks, there used to be one at the bottom of my street but its not there anymore. My missus was waliking my daughter to the bus stop this morning and they both slipped in the snow. When she got in she phoned the council and asked why there is no grit available and the reply was " footpaths are not a priority"

WRX_Dazza

its was safer for me to drive than walk before xmas !!! absolute nightmare..... lazy council ***** can at least throw some sand down.....

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!

SunnySideUp

No grit in the country ...... needs to be imported from Iran.

ALi-B

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Its the opposite here; they been gritting all the residential streets.

Some roads by me I have never seen gritted in the past thirteen year I've driving - yet this year they gritted them...WTF.

Stop blowing my council tax on grit and resurface all the potholed roads that are ruining my car's suspension.

Even more stupider, they gritted last night at 10pm...no snow. So by the time teh snow did came (8am the following day), all the cars had driven away all the salt and grit, so when the snow did come down, it stuck.

They eventually re-gritted mid day....probem is teh second bout of snow came in the evening, and you guess it, all the grit and salt had been washed off by then by the traffic.

I'd rather they didn't grit roads at all, maybe just A-roads, motorways and bus routes. But nothing else. Thinking about it, thas what it was like ten years ago, and we coped ok back then.

nick172sport

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not gritted anywhere in greater manchester only main roads no one can get off our estate apart from me and 4x4s wont be even trying to get to work tommorow

barnes_2k7

your lucky you haven't had to work on the gritters (some may have lol so i apologise) worse thing i've had to work on ( bar tanks ) nothing comes apart and its a nightmare to free stuff off, salt just doesn't bear well with them when it comes to repairing them lol

Moley

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Haven't seen one gritter this winter

TheVoices

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A friend was at a New Years Eve party and one of the other guests drives gritters for the local council, he said they are often told to drive around with the amber lights on but not spread any grit !

Just fools people when they see the gritters driving around !

ALi-B

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One drove past whilst I was walking the dog tonight (on a snow covered side road which is a bus route), and no grit was comming out.

Busses were still running though (albeit sliding to a stop at the bus stop).

dpb

The ones iv come across also were not spewing much grit

boomer

For my entire journey up the M6 for Christmas (Brum to Preston) and all the way back afterwards just about every roadside message sign said "SALT SPREADING", and yet for those 200 miles or so of motorway travel i did not see a single gritter.

Check for yourselves, see how many "SALT SPREADING" signs are on your favourite motorway (via the Motorway Traffic Flow tool), then look at the traffic cameras to see how (un)clear our major arteries really are

Anyone would think that they are trying to brainwash us

mb

Timwinner

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What country can we invade for road salt?

boomer

Cheshire (so why is the M6 not being gritted???)

mb

ScoobyDriverWannabe

Think I have used the car once since about the 22nd.

The main roads are ok but its a nightmare getting on & off my estate, were not classed a priority area to be gritted. I think we should be though, its a really hilly area where cars have trouble getting up & down the banks.

I was talking to my friend earlier & he was complaining about them coming round too often waking him up. Daft thing is he lives on the sea front and the snow never lasts very long. Where as up here we tend to have it about a week after its melted else where.

WRX_Dazza

gritter lorry just went past.... lights ablaze and guess what.....

not a single bit of grit flew out the back of it !!!!

suits me as im off out to play !!

Leslie

They have done well here in the SW, the roads have been kept pretty clear in the main.

Les

Mifo

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We only get the main roads done around here. The residential areas are just left but there is the odd grit box that has been topped up.

boomer

I expect most people think that "gritting" means sprinkling grit on slippery road, but not in Brum it isn't...

From birminghamnewsroom.com



mb

stevebt

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All they have done where I live now is put signs up saying roads are closed as they are quite steep banks either side of my street so it gets fun trying to get to the main roads.

Big Pete

Officially the council here are saying they have 48hrs left.

Unofficially they've actually run out. There are council lads in flatback transits with a bit of grit in the back and they are doing an excellent job on the pavements. But they don't have much more to use.

stevebt

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Supposedly scarborough is doing the roads with the sand from the beaches

ScoobyDriverWannabe

Still never seen a gritter.

But this morning we had a JCB drive around the street. Its cleared the top of the snow off leaving about 3 inches of ice.

Around the rest of the estate he piled the snow up on the street corners, but in my street we have a mong that runs a car trading business from home, he has 3 of the cars parked on the corner.

So there's 2 massive piles of snow either side of the trench he dug along the road.

ALi-B

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Report him then: Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16)

Probably on the tax fiddle too so let HMRC know about his side business too